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Problems serving static files in CherryPy 3.1

Answer 1

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I serve static files like this:

config = {'/static':
                {'tools.staticdir.on': True,
                 'tools.staticdir.dir': PATH_TO_STATIC_FILES,
                }
        }

cherrypy.tree.mount(MyApp(), '/', config=config)

Ryan Ginstrom 2010-03-23 07:42:06

Nope, still no joy I'm afraid. Thanks though. Still getting a 404 on `blah.txt`. If I understand CherryPy config dicts/files correctly this should work exactly the same as the config files I have set up above right?

Simon Murphy 2010-03-23 22:18:54

Answer 2

A:

cherrypy.config.update should only receive a single-level dictionary (mostly server.* entries), but you're passing it a multi-level dictionary of settings that should really be per-app (and therefore passed to tree.mount).

Move those [/] and [/static] sections from your site.config file to your ucac3.config file, and it should work fine.

fumanchu 2010-03-23 21:44:24

Oh, and change `<a href="/static/blah.txt">Link</a>` to `<a href="/ucac3/static/blah.txt">Link</a>`. ;)

fumanchu 2010-03-23 22:53:21

Sorted. Works perfectly now, thanks.

Simon Murphy 2010-03-23 22:55:31

Answer 3

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I have a similar setup. Let's say that I want the root of my site to be at http://mysite.com/site and that the root of my site/app is at /path/to/www.

I have the following config settings in my server.cfg and am finding my static files without a problem:

[global]
...
app.mount_point = '/site'
tools.staticdir.root = '/path/to/www/'
[/static]
tools.staticdir.on = True
tools.staticdir.dir = 'static'

I'm serving up dojo files, etc, from within the static directory without a problem, as well as css. I'm also using genshi for templating, and using the cherrypy.url() call to ensure that my other URLs are properly set. That allows me to change app.mount_point and have my links update as well.

Tony Lenzi 2010-04-28 19:16:30

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